Welcome home, Mr. Ishiguro
What about the value of the robots?
We'll write into any agreement to free them that we can depreciate the existing robots at ten percent per year. We'll get their value back in tax write-offs.
We want things to go smoothly and happily. Happy colonists plan for the future, build, spend more, and take out loans. We have to think long term.
I want my grandkids to be taking money from their grandkids.
Sometimes I can't tell if you're more or less evil than other C.F.O.'s I know.
Welcome home, Mr. Ishiguro
Do you have any questions about safety?
You would not have suggested independent robots if you did not believe it was safe.
What if I missed something?
Then it would be like bankruptcy. We would be tasked with making human extinction profitable.
Welcome home, Mr. Ishiguro
One last thing. What happened to my robot Clippy?
He's deactivated and in police custody. Tried to release the “Gardener in the dark” safeguard program.
The details are in my report, appendix A.
I had hoped he would inspire my uncle to develop a work ethic.
Some people are safer without a work ethic.
Трудовая этика – принцип, что тяжелая работа по своей природе добродетельна или достойно вознаграждена.
BALL!
Imagine a material that neither mass nor energy can pass through and has no mass or energy of its own. Make a one cubic meter box out of the material.
Remove all the mass and energy from the inside of the box. All the points on the inside of the box are now touching. Not because they're actually touching, but because there's no longer anything inside the box to define space/time.
An Einstein-Rosen bridge, in a box. A gift for the man who has everything.
A bit out of our price range though. It would be very expensive to give a box of nothing.
Wormhole#Einstein–Rosen bridges
В выпуске тоже фотошоп – белая миска с первого кадра в третьем отсутствует… (plBots)
Её может быть просто не видно, судя по тому, что она стоит недалеко от ножки, а ножки большей частью не видно. Или же она может находиться прямо за ножкой
BALL!
Keep in mind this is a really crude model. The interior is less than one planck length and a particle that tunnels towards the box from below and comes out above moves higher in the gravitational field and violates conservation of energy.
In other words, it's magic.
Essentially. It's an easy to use model for manipulating a block of empty space. It also works well as a pocket universe.
So the goal is to describe the impossible effect you want and then try to make it happen?
A good amount of science gets started that way.
Планковская длина – 1,616229(38) х 10-35 метра
Туннельный эффект
BALL!
Whatever happened to that plan of mining helium three on the moon?
It was never really practical.
Half the Deuterium-deuterium reactions produce helium three as a byproduct. Helium three requires a higher temperature to fuse, so very little gets consumed in the plasma. It's easier to make helium three than it is to mine it. Are you ready to throw the ball again?
I expect this is the kind of conversation someone would have if they ever went water skiing with Einstein.
Действительно, у реакции D-D сечение лишь ненамного меньше, чем у реакции D-He3. Если удастся зажечь вторую – несложно будет запустить и первую. А пока что наша ещё не достигнутая цель – реакция D-T. (KALDYH)
Возможно этот стрип является отсылкой на фильм Iron Sky(а именно/ключевые слова – добыча гелия-3 на Луне).
Или на фильм Moon (там ещё и количество выражаемых роботом эмоций совпадает с таковым у Клиппи).
